Software Developer
Oracle
This position requires the candidate to contribute in All areas of the Autonomous Database Dedicated Service.
The candidate will mainly play these two roles: as a Development Engineer and as Operations Engineer.
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Operations Engineer Description:
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Work with an elite team to provide Oracle Database Administration support for customer production systems in the Oracle Cloud, with the opportunity to work on the latest Oracle database releases and features as part of the cloud first strategy. Provide DBA operational support with a high degree of customer service, technical expertise, and timeliness. Deliver accurate and creative solutions to customer problems to ensure customer success.
Work with an elite team to provide Oracle Database Administration support for customer production systems in the Oracle Cloud, with the opportunity to work on the latest Oracle database releases and features as part of the cloud first strategy. Provide DBA operational support with a high degree of customer service, technical expertise, and timeliness. Deliver accurate and creative solutions to customer problems to ensure customer success.
Must be a motivated, team-player with the ability to work multi-functional with a “can-do” and “do-it-right” attitude, a self-starter, and constantly thinking of ways to improve the work.
Leading contributor individually and as a team member.
2+ years of demonstrated ability supporting relational databases as a DBA, with a focus in Oracle and related tools. Experience with an organization with a key 24 X 7 reliance on its databases is preferred..
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Alert and diagnostic monitoring
- Participate 24x7 on call support on a weekly rotating schedule, including weekends
- Work closely with Product Development teams and provide feedback to improve product quality
- Develop administration automation and monitoring scripts as needed
- Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures/documentation
- Provide escalation support for database related issues
- Share knowledge and mentor junior team members as needed
- Attend weekly team meetings and participate team building activities
- Other duties, as assigned
Key Requirements include:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Must have 2+ years of extensive database management experience with solid sense of ownership, vitality and drive
- Willing to work in a 24x7 production mission critical environment, including weekends
- Experience with Oracle database 12c, 19c, RAC, ASM, Data Guard and Performance tuning
- Experience with Enterprise Manager for monitoring and administering critically important databases
- Experience with database backup and recovery
- Experience with database patching and upgrades
- Experience in any Unix shell script, Perl script and Python
- Experience in Oracle SQL/PLSQL
- Experience administering databases on Exadata is a strong plus
- Experience with Public Cloud
- Understanding of Rest APIs
- Knowledge of standard processes and DEVOPS methodologies in an always-up, always-available service
- Strong troubleshooting skills to investigate errors and performance bottlenecks
- Excellent written, verbal communication and documentation skills
Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Design, write, and deploy software to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of Oracle products and services. Design and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems. Facilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.
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Development Engineer Description:
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Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
Oracle's Autonomous Database on Dedicated architecture provides the customer a private database cloud in the public cloud. Oracle's cloud@customer brings Oracle's fully managed service into the customer's data center, thereby maintaining complete control of their data and thus addresses data sovereignty, security, and connectivity concerns. Autonomous Database on Dedicated infrastructure is an enterprise grade cloud service, and is being rapidly adopted by Oracle's premier customers.
We are looking for passionate and result-oriented candidates to join the growing service team. The service team works on all aspects of the service: from design and development to support and automation of day to day operations. You will become a part of the team involved in multiple high-profile projects with high visibility across the Oracle development organization. Your responsibilities will include design and development of the code that underpins autonomous database service and enablement of database features on the service, as well as taking part in day to day operations, software update automation of the service and coming up with ways to improve the service offering as well as the devops process.
Career Level - IC2
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Oracle's Autonomous Database on Dedicated architecture provides the customer a private database cloud in the public cloud. Oracle's cloud@customer brings Oracle's fully managed service into the customer's data center, thereby maintaining complete control of their data and thus addresses data sovereignty, security, and connectivity concerns. Autonomous Database on Dedicated infrastructure is an enterprise grade cloud service, and is being rapidly adopted by Oracle's premier customers. We are seeking a Software Developer with strong computer science fundamentals and experience in DevOps engineering. You will contribute to the development of new features for the ADBD Service, while utilizing your operational and troubleshooting expertise to support customer production systems. You will have the opportunity to work with the latest Oracle Database releases and features, playing a key role in our cloud-first strategy.
Career Level - IC3
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Operations Responsibilities:
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Work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas. Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services. Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture. Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio. Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack. Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. Understand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.
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Development Responsibilities
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Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others.
BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
1-3 years of software engineering or related experience.